When I try to compress my drive with DriveSpace, it stops
in the middle of the scan for disk errors and tells me I
have disk errors. Then it tells me to run ScanDisk on
Thourough and I do all of the stuff it tells me to do and

I have an older machine using windows 98 and the hard
drive is partitioned in 2gig patitions. Is there a way to
unpartition without losing any data or programs?

Recently had a NERO CD burner installed. I am able to burn
cd-rw's but when I try to view the content (photos) my D:
drive will not open or recognize, tried opening with
another program but it says "cannot locate graphic

I have been trying very hard to defragment my computer.  I
try to scan first but the scan disk only goes half way.  I
then try to defrag and that do not even start right away,
then when it starts it goes to one percent and thats it.  

Using a Western Digital 80GB External Firewire Drive with
Windows 98SE is causing problems. After partioning and
formatting the drive and using it for awhile, I notice
that some of the partions become corrupted.  This ends up

My sister has a HP with OME xp home  tech said that her
motherboard  is shot. I lent her mine running 98, and
tried to use her 30G drive as a slave. the bios sees the
drive but it doesn't show in my computer. I'm assume that

When I attempt to run disk scan or defrag I get an error
message telling me that a program is writing to disk. I've
shut off all of the programs that I have open, but it
continues.

my computer will not start up and will not let me go to my
bios need reboot disk

My computer is a Compaq Presario.  My question is, "is
there a way to make a backup of just the windows 98
program?"  Or would it be better just to buy the disc on
the internet?

Running out of ideas here...please advise.
K7SEM motherboard, Bios 1.1b, have used Maxtor Powermax
to Low-level format the HD this time because I thought
the combination of an old PartitionMagic MBR and Fdisk

I recently took all the guts out of my PII 350 and put
them into a P4 1.2.  I expected no problems, but I was
WRONG.  Now my CD only works in "DOS" before Windows
boots, but it won't show up in my Windows 98se or if I

I am in the process of rebuilding my PC with Win98se. I
have two harddisks (Primary is partitioned into three,
Secondary has a single partition). The Bios reports that
LBA is enabled but during the system checking prior to

i am getting several error messages when i startup cant
seem to find answers on web site
a fatal exception OE has occurred at 0028:ff0773E6
thecurrent application will be terinated so i push enter

before you rashly attempt to solve your disk problems, PLEASE FIRST SAVE
YOUR REGISTRY on some kind of floppy or off computer media,   Or even Print
it out as a text file.
Run "regedit" and export it before you LOSE the info

My cd drive reads some disks like the aol disk but will
not read a data cd burned on a Windows ME computer. I am
running Windows 98 SE. The cd can be read on my friends
Windows 98 computer but can not be read by my computer.